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ISBN-13: 978-0822343134. The notion of ‘universal human rights’ has had a checkered career over the past sixty years. Touted by some as one of the most effective tools for the empowerment and liberation of women and the poor in the so-called third world, it is denounced by others as a self-serving cultural imposition on the part of the Western world. As the book states, human rights is a very complex and complicated topic especially when we try to apply our western mind-set to these cultures.

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First Online: 07 August 2009. do human rights practices and discourse produce for Maya people?

First Online: 07 August 2009. Accordingly, the overarching question this volume seeks to answer is this: what kinds of outcomes do human rights practices and discourse produce for Maya people?

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous .

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence. Contributors: Robert M. Carmack, Stener Ekern, Christine Kovic, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Julián López García, Irma Otzoy, Pedro Pitarch, Álvaro Reyes, Victoria Sanford, Rachel Sieder, Shannon Speed, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, David Stoll, Richard Ashby Wilson.

Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed, and Xochitl Leyva Solano (ed., Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements. Gendered Intersections : Collective and Individual Rights in Indigenous Women's Experience. Shannon Speed - 2009 - In Mark Goodale (e., Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader.

Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements.

Human Rights in the Maya Region : Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements. In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals.

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Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed, Xochitl Leyva-Solano. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence.

Guatemala Ethnic relations. Personal Name: Pitarch Ramo?n, Pedro.